Saw this in a magazine. Looks suspiciously like brazing to me. And with a $2000 price tag, I can't see its' benefit over a conventional welding or plasma machine. Supposedly it will be sold in retail outlets like Tractor Supply later this year. Comes from Russia.

http://www.multiplaz.com/index

 

hmmm...
tig with a compressed air nozzle?
big power unit to drive accessories.

 

I'll wait for the movie.

 

This thing uses small amount of water or water/alcohol mix to make a slow moving plasma. Welding with that would be like welding with a poorly adjusted acetylene torch on steroids. Found this vid on utube. Yuck.

Slow plasma = poor cut
Plasma weld = oxidized weld
What's the point?

 

I'll stick with my $200.00 flux welder... Works just fine for what I need to weld

 

Those welds look terrible If I'm showcasing a product I'd hire a pro to use the tool.

 

I believe their target group is the weekend welding warriors..

I'll keep the:

Hypertherm 1250 plasma (most patents and lowest consumable cost/cut)
Miller 350P Pulsed wire feed (metal flame spraying monster)
Miller 250 Syncrowave (tig & stick)
Miller FI 250 Bobcat (for the things I cant drag into the shop)
Victor Journeyman Torches

You can never have to many tools - however the shop can be to small

 

I'm thinkin' "Slagmaster" might be a better name for it.....

 

Obviously, it is a multi-use tool. Plasma cut, weld, and can be used on a broad spectrum of metals. One machine taking the place of many. I am happy with my arc, mig, and plasma machines, but I'm sure that the multiplaz has its place. I doubt that they would have invested so much into it if it didn't have possibilities.

 

This reminds me of the old Shopsmith tools that had a lathe, drill press, table saw, disc sander and maybe a ice cream maker all in one tool ......They looked cool but in reality they never really did anything just right.....Combo tools are more gadget than anything else.

 

I got a Harbor Freight mig welder, the $300 one for $135 when it was on sale. Ungassed flux core welds on dirty metal come out better than that, and if I get off my dead but, clean up the metal, and go with the solid wire and gas shield, it's downright pretty. I'm getting too shaky to keep a low hydrogen arc going, unless it's hot and heavy.

 

perhaps they did...

I would like to see a cross section of that weld to see how well it penetrated.

 

The pipe welds LOOKED ok. Not so much on the 'T' tho. I thought for a minute someone had turned Blake loose with his stick welder on that one.

You invested in Yugo, didn't you?

 

so under Section IX, would this be qualified as a weld or braze?

 

I don't think it would 'qualify' as anything.